<div dir="ltr">Hey Joey,<div><br></div><div>I had an old Core i3 motherboard, an old eMachines case, and some spare 500GB drives laying around. The only thing I had to buy was a $40 dual Intel NIC (I prefer the Intel NIC chipset). I loaded up pfSense on it and it runs like a champ! It's been running for about a year now... no issues and rock solid. My only issue with it is that it draws 114W (I have it on an APC UPS that shows the load). I'll eventually buy a real pfSense firewall, but for now, this is fine.</div><div><br></div><div>/Raj</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 9:04 PM, Joey Kelly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joey@joeykelly.net" target="_blank">joey@joeykelly.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Guys,<br>
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I see posts about pfSense, dd-rwt, Ubiquiti and the like. I'm not knocking<br>
them, but asking rather if anyone still rolls their own *nix NAT box running<br>
on dumpster hardware, like we used to to in the old days.<br>
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Joey Kelly<br>
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